City Moves for 21 September 2018 – who’s switching jobs at Marsh, OFX and Currencycloud? September 21, 2018 Today's City Moves cover insurance broking and payments companies. Take a look at these movers and shakers: Marsh Marsh, a global leader in insurance broking and innovative risk management solutions, has appointed Alistair Fraser (pictured) as CEO of its UK corporate division. Alistair succeeds Joe Grogan, who Marsh has named as chairman of Marsh Ireland. [...]
City Moves for 21 September 2018 – who’s switching jobs at Marsh, OFX and Currencycloud? September 21, 2018 Today's City Moves cover insurance broking and payments companies. Take a look at these movers and shakers: Marsh Marsh, a global leader in insurance broking and innovative risk management solutions, has appointed Alistair Fraser (pictured) as CEO of its UK corporate division. Alistair succeeds Joe Grogan, who Marsh has named as chairman of Marsh Ireland. [...]
Fever-Tree’s audacious success has taken the drinks industry by storm, but where do they go from here? September 20, 2018 A few weeks ago, Jake Meyer became only the 10th Briton in history to reach the summit of Pakistan’s K2 mountain. How did he celebrate this towering achievement? He cracked open a tiny bottle of Bombay Sapphire gin then poured it into a Fever-Tree branded glass, topped up with its signature Indian tonic water. Apparently, [...]
Fever-Tree’s audacious success has taken the drinks industry by storm, but where do they go from here? September 20, 2018 A few weeks ago, Jake Meyer became only the 10th Briton in history to reach the summit of Pakistan’s K2 mountain. How did he celebrate this towering achievement? He cracked open a tiny bottle of Bombay Sapphire gin then poured it into a Fever-Tree branded glass, topped up with its signature Indian tonic water. Apparently, [...]
Regulator calls in Paypal’s $2.2bn iZettle merger on day it completes September 20, 2018 The UK's competition regulator has called in Paypal's $2.2bn (£1.7bn) acquisition of Swedish payments firm iZettle on the day it completes. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will investigate whether the merger would lessen competition between payment platforms in the UK, with the firms remaining separate until the CMA concludes its probe. Nevertheless, Paypal said the [...]
Regulator calls in Paypal’s $2.2bn iZettle merger on day it completes September 20, 2018 The UK's competition regulator has called in Paypal's $2.2bn (£1.7bn) acquisition of Swedish payments firm iZettle on the day it completes. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will investigate whether the merger would lessen competition between payment platforms in the UK, with the firms remaining separate until the CMA concludes its probe. Nevertheless, Paypal said the [...]
Global league table of ‘caring’ investors: Americans more focused on sustainability than Europeans September 20, 2018 | City Talk The US is the only developed country to make the top 10 of a sustainable investment league table that gauges consumer habits and investing actions. Countries in the developing world dominated the top ten while European countries occupied the middle and lower half of the league table. The results of the Schroders Global Investor Study [...]
Don’t let Brexit or political differences create a hostile office environment September 20, 2018 Facebook is “a political monoculture that’s intolerant of different views”, according to a post from Brian Amerige on an internal online group at the social media company called “FBers for Political Diversity”. Amerige claims that although the US company presents itself as welcoming all political perspectives, in reality anyone with a view that opposed left-leaning [...]
Don’t let Brexit or political differences create a hostile office environment September 20, 2018 Facebook is “a political monoculture that’s intolerant of different views”, according to a post from Brian Amerige on an internal online group at the social media company called “FBers for Political Diversity”. Amerige claims that although the US company presents itself as welcoming all political perspectives, in reality anyone with a view that opposed left-leaning [...]
City Moves for 20 September 2018 – who’s switching jobs at Metro Bank, Investx and FedEx Express? September 20, 2018 Today's City Moves cover banking, finance and package delivery. Take a look at these movers and shakers: Metro Bank Metro Bank has appointed Catherine Brown as an independent non-executive director. Catherine holds various non-executive roles including: non-executive board member at the Cabinet Office, non-executive director of FNZ (UK) Limited and chairman and non-executive director of [...]
